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Been listening to the cast album of Hamilton and it's really frigging good, which is coming from someone who doesn't like Hip Hop or Rap.
Here's a link to the 60 Minutes special on IT
Some of the lyrics haunt you....
Hamilton: "I'm not throwing away my shot, I'm young, scrappy, and hungry, just like my country, and I'm not throwing away my shot."
Thomas Jefferson: "When Britain taxed our tea we got frisky, imagine what we'll do when you tax our Whisky."
Hamilton: "Thomas that was a real nice declaration, welcome to the present, we're trying to run a nation, would you like to join us, or run back to whatever it is you do in Montecello?"
See below - as done in the White House - which basically explains why we ended up with a Civil War 100 years later. After my mother read the book upon which this was adapted from, she stated, well it's not at all surprising we ended up in the Civil War.
And...King George who sings a hilarious British style invasion love song from the 1960s..
"You'll be back, like before, I will fight the fight, and win the war for your love, for your praise and I'll love you till my dying days, when you're gone I'll go mad, so don't throw away this thing we had...cause when push comes to shove, I will kill your friends and family to remind you of my love."
Highly impressed by the Cast Album. And I can see why people have gone nuts over it. It's not just Hip-Hop, he blends various Broadway and other musical forms and redefines them.
I'm also intrigued by the book by Chernow, which my brother told my mother he'd read in the space of a week and found to be a page-turner. Took her a bit longer.
Here's a link to the 60 Minutes special on IT
Some of the lyrics haunt you....
Hamilton: "I'm not throwing away my shot, I'm young, scrappy, and hungry, just like my country, and I'm not throwing away my shot."
Thomas Jefferson: "When Britain taxed our tea we got frisky, imagine what we'll do when you tax our Whisky."
Hamilton: "Thomas that was a real nice declaration, welcome to the present, we're trying to run a nation, would you like to join us, or run back to whatever it is you do in Montecello?"
See below - as done in the White House - which basically explains why we ended up with a Civil War 100 years later. After my mother read the book upon which this was adapted from, she stated, well it's not at all surprising we ended up in the Civil War.
And...King George who sings a hilarious British style invasion love song from the 1960s..
"You'll be back, like before, I will fight the fight, and win the war for your love, for your praise and I'll love you till my dying days, when you're gone I'll go mad, so don't throw away this thing we had...cause when push comes to shove, I will kill your friends and family to remind you of my love."
Highly impressed by the Cast Album. And I can see why people have gone nuts over it. It's not just Hip-Hop, he blends various Broadway and other musical forms and redefines them.
I'm also intrigued by the book by Chernow, which my brother told my mother he'd read in the space of a week and found to be a page-turner. Took her a bit longer.